Product Description: Between Parker’s 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst of all, money had gone digital—the days of cash-stuffed payroll trucks were long gone...read more

Product Description: Louis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century. He was a phenomenally gifted and imaginative artist, and an entertainer so irresistibly magnetic that he knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts four decades after he cut his first record...read more

Documents the late ballet magnate's Russian heritage, love for American culture, four marriages, and ongoing legacy that has caused his works to be danced by prestigious companies continuously since 1948.

Product Description: Terry Teachout, one of our most acute cultural commentators, here turns his sharp eye to every corner of the arts world-music, dance, literature, theater, film, TV, and the visual arts. This collection gathers the best of Teachout's writings from the past fifteen years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A portrait of the outspoken American writer and critic, based on autobiographical manuscripts, traces his early days as a cub reporter to his tenure as founding editor of The American Mercury, citing his controversial views on religion, art, love, and politicians. Reprint.

A portrait of the outspoken American writer and critic, based on autobiographical manuscripts, traces his early days as a cub reporter to his tenure as founding editor of The American Mercury, citing his controversial views on religion, art, love, and politicians. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: Lyricist, essayist, and music historian, Lees draws on his encyclopedic knowledge and a lifetime experience to present an entertaining and informative account of jazz and its artists, both celebrated and neglected. There is fresh insight into the lives and work of an eclectic group of jazz artistes from Bix Beiderbecke to Dizzy Gillespie, from swing to bebop, from 1920s to 1990s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Never-before-published collection of letters between Chambers, a former Communist agent, and journalist Ralph de Toledano. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of Whittaker Chamber's journalism is a superb rediscovery of the artistry of a great figure. --William F. Buckley, Jr.

A collection of 238 observations by the social commentator includes thoughts about the American political system, sex, crime, and vices

A collection of Mencken's essays, treating such topics as morality, the legal profession, New York City, American eating habits, and academic criticism

Product Description: Terry Teachout sings of regional America. This is the story of how he grew up in a small town and after many adventures and much embarrassment, went away to the big city to live.

Gathers short stories, essays, articles and reviews by the controversial journalist, and includes his observations on Marx, Joyce, Kafka, Santayana, Ayn Rand, and Greta Garbo